Hunger Crisis in East Africa - Somalia Some 14.4 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya need humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations. In some places, acute food insecurity could soon deteriorate into famine. Famines are rare,

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(四月)

Sanctions Threaten Londons Secretive Russian Oligarchs 制裁影响伦敦俄裔神秘寡头政治家 LONDON During the past decade London has proved a magnet for rich Russians. But the billions of rubles that pour into the City of London could be und

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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indigenous people around the world suffer high levels of diabetes, drug and alcohol abuse, youth suicide and infant mortality, said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon here on Monday. Speaking at the launch of the Sta

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

AS IT IS 2016-09-13 North Korea Faces Condemnation Over Fifth Nuclear Test 针对第五次核试验,朝鲜将面临谴责 The United States and its allies are reacting to North Koreas latest nuclear test. The test, carried out on September 9th, was t

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AS IT IS 2016-03-14 US Running Out of Pilots 美国空军面临飞行员短缺问题 Regional airlines in the United States are short of pilots. Many older airline pilots are retiring. Federal regulations require pilots to take time off between fligh

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AS IT IS 2016-03-22 Brazil's President Faces Political Crisis 巴西总统面临政治危机 President Dilma Rousseff faces a political crisis as a Supreme Court Justice has blocked her Cabinet appointment and the majority of Brazilians support her i

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AS IT IS 2014-11-26 Central African Republic Losing the Next Generation 中非共和国跨倒的一代人 The Central African Republic has been unsettled since 2013. First, the Seleka rebel group ousted the government. The Seleka fighters were mostly

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US, Europe Condemn Violence in Ukraine, Consider Sanctions 美国、欧洲谴责乌克兰暴力流血事件,考虑制裁 The United States and the European Union are considering sanctions against senior government officials in Ukraine in response to

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Some Multi-National Companies Ignoring Western Sanctions Against Russia 一些跨国公司不担心对俄罗斯的制裁 Western sanctions are hurting Russias economy. Thats according to the countrys economic minister, who says Russias economic outpu

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本期内容: Occasionally,lifecanbeundeniably,impossiblydifficult.Wearefacedwithchallengesandeventsthatcanseemoverwhelming,life-destroyingtothepointwhereitmaybehardtodecidewhethertokeepgoing.Butyoualwayshaveachoice. 生活有时候困难得难以置

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 口语侠每日早读

Heavy smog again blanketed northern China during this past week's National Day holiday, with straw burning mostly blamed. The state environmental protection bureau says they identified some 400 burning sites in nine different provinces in the north o

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Express deliveries grew more than 43 percent in the first half of 2015, compared with the same period last year. According to head of China's State Post Bureau, about 14 billion parcels were delivered in 2014, up 52 percent. Song Guowei is a courier

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NSA下位负责人将面临挑战 Outrage over the U.S. National Security Agency's widespread collection of telephone and Internet data from American allies could lead to a changed landscape for the spy agency. Allegations the National Security Agenc

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The class is entitled Ethics and Public Policy in a Globalized World. It starts with a video projection of a song from the 1972 musical movie Cabaret. Yubing Shi looks amused... but also a little puzzled. The song finishes. The professor explains tha

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在求职时,不少单位都会询问女求职者打算什么时间生孩子。职场上的女性,常常面临工作和生育的两难抉择。二胎政策施行后,越来越多的职业女性将面临这一难题。因为各种原因不能生娃

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You can find bubbliness in bits of American finance, including the corporate-bond market, and some nasty off-balance-sheet liabilities like student loans and public-sector pensions, but America does not look like a source of imminent trouble. 你可以

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Just two days after Apple released its latest iPhone upgrade, the iPhone 6S, reporters in Shanghai did a straw poll survey of locals around the city to gauge the reaction. While certainly not scientific, the lack of enthusiasm is quite evident. Apple

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The progress of science and technology is creating new ways things can go wrong for humanity, according to British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. 英国理论物理学家和宇宙学家斯蒂芬霍金称,科技的进步正为人

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奥巴马医改法案或面临威胁 While technical problems with the web site have plagued the initial implementation of the Affordable Care Act -- President Obama's health care program, there are other consequences of this complex system of privat

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Science and technology. 科技。 Scientific publishing 科技出版业 Brought to book 好书来了 Academic journals face a radical shake-up 学术期刊面临彻底改变 IF THERE is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that ende

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